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(No Model.)

I. G; PLATT.

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PATENT BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,216, dated April 1,1884.

Application mea March 10,1883. (No model.)

. iVaterbury, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, have invented a.new and useful Improvement in Buttons; and l do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being `had to the accompanying sheet of drawings,

forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of animprovement in buttons, and theinvention consists in a button with an eyelet loosely iitted to the hubof the button, and in combination with a rivet, whereby the button issecured to the garment.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a cross-section ofluy-button with eyelet attached. Fig. 2 is aside view oi' the rivet.Fig. 3 is a cross-section of button and eyelet and rivet, showing themanner of se curing thebutton to the garment.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several gures.

This invention relates, particularly, to that class of buttons which aredesigned to be secured to the garment by a metallic fastening or rivet.An objection found to exist in buttons of this4 character is the rigidattachment of thebutton, which contines the button tightly in contactwith the fabric to which it is at tached, tending to eut the fabricunder some circumstances. Then, again, in buttons with metallicfastenings, the rigidity of the button to its fastening device rendersit difficult to button and unbutton the garment.

To avoid these objections, and make a better and cheaper button thanthose of ordinary manufacture, I construct the head A of my button ofany desired size and from any suitable material, forming on its back ahub, o, and perforate this hub with a circular hole. Into this hole b isinserted an eyelet, C, the eyelet having aange, c, formed on one of itsends, and its other end, which protrudes through the opening, is turnedover or upset around the inner edge of that opening, so that the eyeletis permanently' fixed within the hub of the button; but since it issomewhat smaller in diameter than the orifice in the hub the button canfree-ly revolve on the eyelet, and also bc moved `up and down somewhaton it,

be tubular or not, as desiredfpreferably, however, tubular in form-witha. closed end. The rivet having been passed through the garment to whichit is intended to secure the button, its shank e protrudes, and on thisprotruding shank is placed the eyelet C, the iiange c of the eyeletresting against the surface ofthe garment. The end of the rivet thenbeing upset within thedepression of the hub over the upset end of theeyelet, the button, without further operation, is iixedin place on thegarment, but while it is in this way securely iiXed to the fabric of thegarment, still, since the button proper or its head is enabled torevolve and have lateral play on the eyelet C, the but ton can be withgreater facility buttoned and unbuttoned, in connection with abutton-hole when in use, than would be the case if its connection withthe rivet was rigid, and, besides, the button is enabled to turn easilyand accommodate itself to the many changes of position due to theflexible character of the material to which the button is secured.

In forming the hub of the button it is preferably drawn from the head ofthe button, so that the inner surface of this hub forms a depression orcountersink, which not only receives the upset end ofthe eyelet withinit, but also the upset end of the rivets G, leaving the face of thebuttonhead with a iinished appearance, without any j agged or rough orprojecting parts to interfere with the smooth working of the button inand out of the but ton-hole.

The button-head may be made from a single piece of metal, with its edgeturned over against itself 5 or it may have any other construction thattaste or expediency can suggest.

Ii', under some circumstances, it should be desired to use the buttonand its parts hereinbefore described so that they shall be rigidlyinstead of adj ustably attached to the garment, the construction of mybutton will readily admit of such rigid attachment, for it is onlynecessary in such a ease to upset the eyelet C within the hub of thebutton to a greater de- ICO l. A button constructed with an eyeletvloosely secured Within the hub of the button, in combination with arivet within the eyelet, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with a button-head constructed with a counter'sunkperforated hub, of an eyelet loosely secured therein, and a hollovsrrivet upset in the eyelet, as and for 2o the purpose described.

8. The button-head constructed with afrecessed hub, combined with aneyelet upset Within said hub, and having a ange formed ou its outer end,and a rivet With its end up- 25 set over the upset end of the eyelet andWithin the recessed hub, as and for the purpose described.

IRVING G. PLATT. Vitnesses:

WM. S. PLATT, O. A. PLATT.

